For the last few weeks I've been preparing for this summers garden. Today I planted.

I have been growing a Azalea cutting in a pot and today I moved it around to plant. I annoyed a toad who was living in the pot. He glared at me with his little toad eyes and I told him- hey bro, you're moving up. The garden is a better neighborhood.

 I'm trying something new this year. The last few years the picking from the garden have been slim. June, critical to the growing season, has been unusually hot and dry. To combat this problem, this year I'm using landscape cloth over the dirt and mulch over the landscape cloth to keep the soil from drying out too quickly. 

Today I planted 3 dozen tomato plants, 18 various pepper, corn, watermelon and some garlic. I grow some herbs too but I grow those in containers. 

The tomatoes are a mix of the Better Boy and Goliath varieties. They have to be heat tolerant because... the next zip code from here is heck.

The corn- any of it grows here. If I'm diligent, I can get two crops of it.

As for the peppers- I have a mix of green bell peppers, Jalapeno and cayenne.

The rest of the garden is ornamental but that has to be dealt with too. I divided some of my favorite daylilies and spread them out. Planted some wild gladiolus and I  added a Confederate lily. I got the good kind that's red and whit and blooms till frost. I planted the little Azalea is a spot I made for it.

After having to move I think the toad is finding his new neighborhood much to his liking.